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Learning from Other Countries about Antibiotics, Sow Stalls
2013-08-09 22:37:00| National Hog Farmer
The United States is not the only country wrestling with issues, such as use of both antibiotics in livestock production, and gestation stalls. This week Scott Hurd, DVM, associate professor and director of the Food Risk Modeling and Policy Laboratory at Iowa State Universitys College of Veterinary Medicine, makes some valid points about the rest of the story after Denmark banned preventive and growth-promoting antibiotics for pigs in 2000. In over 20 years of food safety research, I have seen quite a few antibiotic-free (ABF) animals, including the famous pigs in Denmark, he writes in his Hurd Health blog. While working in the processing plant, I could often tell when ABF pigs were coming down the line. The animals from the ABF farms usually appeared somewhat unthrifty. Often there was less uniformity in carcass size and more issues. National Hog Farmer Blog read more
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EU Countries Failure to Meet Sow Stall Ban Irks Brits
2013-08-09 15:39:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: British National Pig Association Despite reassurances to the contrary, seven months after the European Union (EU) introduced a ban on individual sow gestation stalls (except for the first four weeks of pregnancy), half of EU countries have failed to comply with the ban. In response, retailers and food manufacturers must continue to be vigilant, warns Britain's National Pig Association (NPA). It argues that British consumers expect all imported pork and pork products to be traceable back to farms that comply with the European Union's January 2013 ban on the full-time use of sow stalls. read more
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HumaneWatch Offers the Truth on Sow Stalls
2013-08-07 22:01:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: HumaneWatch The HumaneWatch project is releasing a new video in its campaign to curb misinformation about individual maternity pens (sow stalls) used in pork — yes, that means bacon — production that have come under attack by the Humane Society of the United States. read more
Utah Farm Phases out Sow Stalls
2013-08-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Consumer concerns have prompted the massive Utah hog operation, Circle Four Farms, and 459 other farms operated by the world’s largest pork supplier to phase out cages so small that breeding pigs cannot turn around or move.
Weekly Overview: Sow Stalls in Decline in US, EU
2013-08-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - The number of sows kept in stalls throughout gestation globally is declining as Smithfield Farms confirmed its commitment to phase out this form of housing in the last week. The company has also released a video for consumers, showing sows kept in group-housing systems for most of their pregnancy. Thirteen EU states are now fully compliant with the sow stall ban. Research continues into the cause and spread of the piglet diarrhoea virus, which now affects farms in 16 US states.
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